1
[ adverb ] in a widespread way

Examples

"oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest"

Used in print

(Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)

In the midwest , oxidation ponds are used extensively for the treatment of domestic sewage from suburban areas .

Related terms

copious copious

2
[ adverb ] to a great extent

Related terms

extensive extensive

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Rhymes with

comprehensively offensively defensively intensively inexpensively expensively attentively excessively progressively impressively successively aggressively obsessively persuasively compulsively derisively impulsively derisively passively massively conclusively effusively impassively explosively exclusively decisively inconclusively exhaustively sensitively collectively respectively retrospectively selectively effectively objectively protectively deceptively tentatively furtively assertively administratively qualitatively creatively authoritatively competitively intuitively instinctively appreciatively alternatively distinctively effectively legislatively imaginatively productively seductively constructively naively plaintively attractively retroactively comparatively positively appreciatively figuratively relatively tentatively negatively cumulatively cooperatively prohibitively provocatively consecutively conservatively actively quantitatively bravely gravely lovely lively

Phonetic and Homophones

IH0 K S T EH1 N S IH0 V L IY0

Similar Spelling

extensive extensile extensible extensional extension extensor extenuate

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